Excellent Ivan - i love this series!

PS We should very soon get the "related lessons" list inside the lessons so you easily can find Ivan's other lessons in this series.

Great Job!

and the great series which helped me a lot so far goes on....

Great series Ivan

nice lesson. Like the licks

I like this way that you take us step to step all the way to a high level

Nice!!

Excellent series !

now, that sounds great!

awsome ivan

very nice dude

nice pentatonic workshop Ivan.good job

Ivan, sounds awesome! Did you put a jb jr in the bridge?

YESS!!!! Finally! I've been waiting
for this!!

What happended to "are you tired of playing like this video" - just kidding. Awesome solo and lesson Ivan

Great as always Ivan!

awsome ivan!! Really great series!!!

Really nice Ivan!!! excellent licks, looking forward to practice it!!!

Nice, reminds me a bit of Santana too, sounds so good.

Excellent!!! Great series Ivan!

Great lesson Ivan. I am really having a lot of fun with this series.

These lessons are awesome. I checked out these before i got a membership , just to see the free parts. And when the part came on where it went like"Are you tired of playing like this? And want to sound like this?"I was like "yeah, yeah!!!!So now I'm practising these like crazy!! Nice series Ivan.

You say the Pentatonic scale is very universal and versatile, and that's right, it can sound rocky or bluesey etc, but what do you do to a pentatonic 'piece' to make it sound rocky rather than bluesey or vise versa? This one's had me for ages - everytime I use the pentatonic, it just sounds bluesey. I'm guessing it's just the phrasing, right? Could you give us some examples where you play the same piece in one style and then in another so we can see it in action?
Thanks!
Kevin

Hi Ivan,
In video 5 are you using alternate picking all the way down the run or are there any pull-offs or hammer-ons? (Can't quite see from the video, but I'm guessing it's picking all the way...!).
The first phrase is quite hard to get up to speed, but I'm getting there. I'm actually finding it a very usual picking exercise that should help loads in lessons to come.
Thanks!
Kevin

Thanks Ivan,
I've been using AP, so I'll stick with it for the time being. Like I said above, it's been a very good AP exercise, as well as a good exercise for phrasing and vibrato!
We'll have to see what the verdict is when I get it into the REC program!!

Thanks,
Kevin

Hi Ivan, thanks for the optimism!
I had a go at this yesterday trying to follow you playing the main video, and failed miserably!
That run starting on the 8th fret of the B string is a killer, and you make it look so easy! I think it's because the run starts straight in at full speed that's tripping me up. I'll just have to keep practicing. (Are you sure this lesson's a level 4, and not a 10! - Just joking!!). I guess it's because the technique I need to play this run at speed, is not something I've done properly in the past. Thing is, I CAN actually play this at 120, but only when I've been playing the same thing for about 2 hours!!
I imagine that once I've conquered it, a lot of the harder lessons won't seem so daunting!!
Anybody else had trouble with this bit, or is it just me?!
Anyway, better carry on - I like a challenge!

Thanks,
Kevin.

Cheers Ivan!!